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Vacuum Tube Circuit Design: Guitar Amplifier Preamps
By Richard Kuehnel
Written for experienced builders who want to design their own circuits from the ground up, this book presents a comprehensive study of triode and pentode preamp design. From the impedance characteristics of the guitar pickup, to the Miller capacitance at the second-stage tube grid, the author describes how to manipulate frequency response and control the dynamics of nonlinear distortion.
Softbound, 223 pages, 1.1lbs

The follow up to Volume 1 and 2 in the series, covering advanced amplifier construction projects for the experienced builder.
Includes detailed plans for replicas of the following five classic tube amplifiers:

New reprint of the 4th edition of this book, originally published in 1973. Discusses signal amplification theory, how each part functions in an amplifier and contains many schematics and amps popular at the time.
Softbound, 382 pages (222 pages of schematics)

“Sound Advice from Gerald Weber”
Everything you wanted to ask about Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers. Foreword by Aspen Pittman.
As an advice columnist for over 20 years in three major guitar magazines, Gerald Weber has probably answered more tube amp questions than anyone. In Gerald’s 5th book about Vacuum Tube Amplifiers, he answers over 300 useful questions…